Counter-Strike: Global Offensive ends, Counter-Strike 2 approaches. The era of CS:GO gave us a decade of esports emotions, and it’s impossible to imagine Valve’s FPS without annual Majors and hundreds of other tournaments. And now, when both usual and game-wise off-season has come at the same time (CS2 beta is almost here, as well as its first tournaments, and the first major in March 2024), the teams decided to update their rosters in an absolute form.
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OFFICIAL: Astralis presented their updated roster. Glaive and xyp9x benched, Staehr and b0RUP join the squad. BlameF will become the captain.
OFFICIAL: Vitality signs flameZ on a free transfer and says farewell to Dupreeh.
OFFICIAL: Team Spirit parted ways with three players at once. W0nderful, s1ren, Patsi are no longer on the team, while the latter joined Team Liquid.
OFFICIAL: Liquid officially signed Rainwaker from Apeks and Patsi from Team Spirit.
OFFICIAL: EliGe left Liquid after eight years and joined Complexity.
OFFICIAL: BIG have announced their roster for the new season with mantuu, s1n and prosus.
OFFICIAL: Virtus.Pro have extended Jame’s contract by four years. This is quite a long deal for esports.
NAVI +jL, +AleksiB, +iM: Blix.gg reports that NAVI will sign jL from Apeks with a high probability, and is also considering AleksiB as a captain, and a Romanian player iM.
Jerry is going to EG? Forze’s ex-coach liTTle revealed that Jerry, who has been put on a transfer recently, is being offered to join Evil Geniuses!
OFFICIAL! Astralis -HUNDEN. The Danish esports club made a post: they’re parting ways with HUNDEN, a renown coach. Astralis also said farewell to their sports director, Kasper Hvidt, who spent six years at the organisation.
OFFICIAL! Falcons +BOROS +launx +mhl. Falcons have officially announced their new nile-up, which includes BOROS.
Liquid +Patsi. OverDrive says that Patsi will join Team Liquid with a high probability. Is he a good replacement for Nitro, who recently retired?
Liquid: -EliGE, +Rainwaker. According to Dust2.US, Liquid want to remove EliGE and sign Rainwaker from Team500!
EG: +EliGE, +Zorte, +JackZ. Various sources say that Evil Geniuses will hunt EliGE from Liquid. Well, Jonathan is no stranger to carrying the North American scene. In addition, EG reached a verbal agreement with JACKZ and zorte.
OG +nexa. OG most likely will assemble a new roster around nexa (the captain is back!), F1KU and regali.
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June 19: NAVI replace three players; Cloud9 signs duo for huge money; FaZe Clan loses one; Fallen to join Furia
We have prepared a separate post for the hottest news of the off-season’s first days. You can read it full here. But also, you can find out what happened by reading the brief digest below.
What’s going on in NAVI? Where will Electronic and Perfecto go?
What will happen to NAVI if the team decides to part with three players at once? It seems like we’re about to learn. Harumi, a CIS insider, and other sources assure that Perfecto and Electronic will be sold. Npl will also leave the roster as he didn’t show quality in the given time.
- NAVI Roster: s1mple, b1t
New club for Electronic and Perfecto is… Cloud9?
Several sources at once claim that Cloud9 is severely interested in signing the Russian duo from NAVI: Electronic and Perfecto. Some say C9 is going to pay one million dollars for two. It makes sense, given that these are superstar players who haven’t peaked yet. However, HObbit and Buster will most likely leave Cloud9 in this case.
Fallen moves to Furia with fer
Despite the fact that Imperial Esports performed very well during BLAST Premier Spring Finals in Washington, most likely, Fallen is going to leave the team and move to Furia Esports. This is stated by many reputable websites. Drop and saffee are already benched to make space.
Vitality Changes: Dupreeh out, FlameZ in
Blix.gg reports this one. FlameZ did not renew his contract with OG, so esports organizations are now hunting this Israeli gem of a player. Most likely, he will replace Dupreeh in Vitality.
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